>From an article on Longhorn in this month's magazine:
"For years, Microsoft has argued that browser-based apps can be replaced by
smart, Internet-aware client applications that exploit the processing power
of desktop computers running Windows."
And quoting a product manager:
"in this browser-centric world clients must always be connected, the server
becomes a bottleneck, and HTML apps are clunky to build and use."
Tie that in with the Avalon XML based GUI and this quote from an analyst:
"...the possibility of letting graphic artists more directly create the user
interface either by entering the markup themselves or by using graphics
tools, as opposed to programmer tools," and it sounds a lot like Flash
Remoting with Longhorn as an OS _being_ Central. And yeah, Sparkle sounds
like the graphics tools the analyst might be referring to.
Here's another related article:
Microsoft eyes Web services design tool
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/28/HNvisdesign_1.html?s=feature
I wonder if the Avalon XAML will use something like embedded VB.NET to do
what ActionScript does for Flash.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:10 PM
Subject: Microsoft is developing a "Flash Killer"
> Microsoft Hopes to Smother Flash with 'Sparkle'
>
> Redmond's readying a Macromedia "Flash killer" that could debut before
> Longhorn, according to sources.
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1374753,00.asp
>
> Watch out, Macromedia. Here comes Microsoft "Sparkle."
>
> <http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3104381>According to press
> reports, Sparkle is an animation toolset that will likely emerge as part
of
> the Longhorn wave of products/technologies. Some are describing Sparkle as
> a Macromedia "Flash killer."
>
> Microsoft officials declined to comment on Sparkle. But here's what
> Microsoft Watch uncovered:
>
> Microsoft's graphics subsystem for Longhorn is code-named "Avalon." Avalon
> is designed to take the place of the USER/GDI graphics application
> programming interfaces (APIs) that are part of the current Win32
> programming model.
>
> Developers can write to Avalon using XAML, the Microsoft-authored
> eXtensible Application Markup Language. But for now, the only way to write
> XAML applications is to hand-code them.
>
> Sparkle is the tool that will automate XAML application development. Said
> one source: Sparkle will let you create XAML and .Net applications."
>
> Another source said that Microsoft used Sparkle to develop the clock that
> was part of the "Sidebar" that is part of the Longhorn Aero interface.
>
> --
>
> Seems to me this is the second or third attempt by M$ to develop this.
>
> larry
>
>
>
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